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Colonial Prose and Poetry

In the earlier period men lived earnestly if not largely, they thought highly if not broadly, they felt nobly if not always with magnanimity.

—Preface

Trent and Wells

Colonial Prose and Poetry

Edited by William P. Trent and Benjamin W. Wells

The 57 writers in these three volumes spannning more than a century and a half represent the literary and cultural trends in Colonial North America—from the confrontation with the American Indians to Puritan life to opposition to slavery.

Bibliographic Record

Preface

NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & Co., 1901
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

Vol. I. The Transplanting of Culture: 1607–1650 Introduction Captain John Smith Colonel Norwood William Bradford Thomas Morton Francis Higginson John Winthrop The Bay Psalm Book John Underhill John Mason John Cotton Roger Williams Thomas Hooker Thomas Shepard Nathaniel Ward Anne Bradstreet Vol. II. The Beginnings of Americanism: 1650–1710 Introduction Edward Johnson John Eliot Michael Wigglesworth John Josselyn Daniel Gookin Thomas Wheeler Peter Folger William Penn Daniel Denton George Alsop Narratives Dealing with Bacon’s Rebellion William Hubbard Mary Rowlandson Urian Oakes Increase Mather Cotton Mather Verses from the Magnalia Samuel Sewall Sarah Kemble Knight Robert Beverly Vol. III. The Growth of the National Spirit: 1710–1775 Introduction John Wise Hugh Jones William Byrd The New England Primer Benjamin Colman and the Turells John Seccomb Patrick Tailfer Thomas Prince William Douglass William Stith Jonathan Edwards Benjamin Franklin Mather Byles Joseph Green John Osborn Thomas Hutchinson John Barnard Benjamin Church Thomas Godfrey and Nathaniel Evans Jonathan Boucher John Woolman Philip Vickers Fithian

Colonial Prose and Poetry

Edited by William P. Trent and Benjamin W. Wells

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